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OK, I'm still a long way off from that standard - but you know what? I don't really care. I LOVE to pick the guitar up - acoustic or electric - and just play. I can lose myself for a couple of hours, forget all the c**p the world's throwing at me, and just enjoy myself playing songs.

I'll never be a great musician - left it too late, really. But - I'll settle for reasonably competent. Or, "hey, Vic's a bloody good rhythm guitarist - nothing flash, but keeps perfect time and only needs to be told the chords...." - and I can always fill in on bass or backing vocals!

truth be told, I've hardly touched a guitar for the last month, since my Marilyn passed away - I pick up the acoustic, start playing "Three Steps To Heaven" - her favourite song - and have to put it down again. I need to change strings on the acoustic and the electric and start playing more. And I'm still at the stage where certain songs - Three Steps To Heaven, Dance The Night Away, Massachusetts, La Bamba, Tequila, Wake Up Little Susie,Oh Pretty Woman, Running Scared - just make me change channels. Can't listen to them yet without memories flooding back.

Maybe I should just get up tomorrow, find those songs on youtube, play along with them and get them out of my system?

Oh, and the other thing - my propensity for damaging my hands reared its ugly head again. March 10th, cutting an onion, took a large slice out of my RH index finger. My strumming finger. It's almost healed up now, but it was bloody sore for a couple of weeks or so.....

Oh well, maybe in the morning I'll feel inspired.....

:D :D :D

Vic
Keep it up Vic, maybe its a good Idea to play "new songs" , songs you haven't played before! Go get you attention elsewhere ?
Try some happy oldies pop songs??

Keep it up!!!!!!!!]]> Opinions and Polls RobParis https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/3/#post-374134 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/3/#post-374064 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 16:15:37 +0000 Opinions and Polls TRGuitar https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/3/#post-374064 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/3/#post-373984 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:09:36 +0000
OK, I'm still a long way off from that standard - but you know what? I don't really care. I LOVE to pick the guitar up - acoustic or electric - and just play. I can lose myself for a couple of hours, forget all the c**p the world's throwing at me, and just enjoy myself playing songs.

I'll never be a great musician - left it too late, really. But - I'll settle for reasonably competent. Or, "hey, Vic's a bloody good rhythm guitarist - nothing flash, but keeps perfect time and only needs to be told the chords...." - and I can always fill in on bass or backing vocals!

truth be told, I've hardly touched a guitar for the last month, since my Marilyn passed away - I pick up the acoustic, start playing "Three Steps To Heaven" - her favourite song - and have to put it down again. I need to change strings on the acoustic and the electric and start playing more. And I'm still at the stage where certain songs - Three Steps To Heaven, Dance The Night Away, Massachusetts, La Bamba, Tequila, Wake Up Little Susie,Oh Pretty Woman, Running Scared - just make me change channels. Can't listen to them yet without memories flooding back.

Maybe I should just get up tomorrow, find those songs on youtube, play along with them and get them out of my system?

Oh, and the other thing - my propensity for damaging my hands reared its ugly head again. March 10th, cutting an onion, took a large slice out of my RH index finger. My strumming finger. It's almost healed up now, but it was bloody sore for a couple of weeks or so.....

Oh well, maybe in the morning I'll feel inspired.....

:D :D :D

Vic]]> Opinions and Polls Vic Lewis VL https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/3/#post-373984 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/3/#post-373974 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:20:32 +0000
Yeah it's totally unmixed so yeah raw, I want the drums further forward and will be removing some of the clean guitars (theres about 7 tracks of clean guitars) just tidying it up a bit and polishing it but I'm really happy with it and I feel the raw ingredients are there and the mix will just add a little more to it. Its being mixed currently by a friend of mine I will hear what he's done next time I see him and offer some input and then we start a new song too :) Great! I am looking forward to hear the end result! :) 8)]]> Opinions and Polls RobParis https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/3/#post-373974 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/3/#post-373973 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:16:05 +0000
Yeah it's totally unmixed so yeah raw, I want the drums further forward and will be removing some of the clean guitars (theres about 7 tracks of clean guitars) just tidying it up a bit and polishing it but I'm really happy with it and I feel the raw ingredients are there and the mix will just add a little more to it. Its being mixed currently by a friend of mine I will hear what he's done next time I see him and offer some input and then we start a new song too :)]]> Opinions and Polls fleaaaaaa https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/3/#post-373973 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/2/#post-373972 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 13:35:09 +0000 its the feeling of "trueness" :)

nice job, when will you be mixing it?

Is it you singing as well?]]> Opinions and Polls RobParis https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/2/#post-373972 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/2/#post-373968 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:28:35 +0000

http://www.mediafire.com/?x1wwzc6v3eaho55]]> Opinions and Polls fleaaaaaa https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/2/#post-373968 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/2/#post-373831 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 14:04:02 +0000 Opinions and Polls RobParis https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/2/#post-373831 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/2/#post-373825 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:23:31 +0000
"Why do you want to play the guitar? What's the reason for you? What is your 'guitar dream'?"

And by asking those questions I know more about how and what to teach, but the
most important thing here is that those questions makes the person think about WHY even play the guitar?
and always it triggers them coz they have damn good reasons! :)

Now I want to ask you:
Why did you start play the guitar?
What motivates you to keep on playing?
What would be your vision/ "guitar dream"?

Share your reasons and dreams, don't be shy, for example;
MANY boys start to play to get more girls, right? haha
and thats not a bad reason, whatever it is, its good you started,
and it will be fun if you want to share Your reasons! Short Answer to why I started Playing:
I found a chordex, had a guitar and nothing else to do with my summer holiday

Longer answer:
I hoped that I would one day to be able to play Jimi Hendrix stuff on my guitar but I knew as a beginner that wouldn't be feasible (I didnt think it ever would be at that point) but now I can do a lot of the stuff that blew me away so much as a listener. Once I had started I found I really loved playing, even simple stuff and I still do now! Of course when I was a teen I had visions of being a big rock star :P And thats not really what I want now, I just want to be a better musician and to fully answer now I suppose that is what drives me now, to be able to record stuff and hope with time and practice to become better at composing my ideas particularly on the spot through improvisation. Looking back I can see myself (I even have pictures) as that 16 y/o kid with his first guitar who could only really hammer out a few basic chords, power chords and get through to where I am now where I can play some pretty advanced stuff and work out the majority of things by ear, very quickly. It started as just something that I was curious - I'd wanted to do it for some time but the main thing was my question in my head of "I wonder if I can play guitar?" I was already playing bass a year before that but even that was a bit of a sidetrack because I'd always wanted to play guitar not bass. So thats my answer :P sorry if I waffled. I had shown interest in playing an instrument before when I was about 10 I wanted to drums but I gave up pretty fast. Then in 97 I was about 12 I heard Metallica Reload, NIrvana Nevermind, Hendrix - anthology called Experience Hendrix and Smashing pumpkins MCIS - well from those records coming into my house I had the idea in the back of my head saying that Id really love to be able to play guitar! :lol:]]> Opinions and Polls fleaaaaaa https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/2/#post-373825 https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/2/#post-373817 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 14:53:34 +0000
next week, I will record a music video to a song I wrote and recorded a month ago or so!
The song is awesome and the video will be a funny video I think! I'll let you know when you can see it online!

doing things like that is my bliss!

peace]]> Opinions and Polls RobParis https://guitarnoise.forum/opinions-and-polls/why-play-guitar-really/paged/2/#post-373817